Looks like I'll have to power up the ol (legit) ExpressVu satellite. They have the Boston networks. I wonder what game my cable provider is carrying - I'll be at my grandparents for dinner later and have to periodically skip out to catch half innings and updates :P

if you have windows media player, go to Here and scroll down to the mlb.tv mosaic. Click the link for "Media Player" and the mlb.tv mosaic will open up in your Windows Media Player. So you will most likely be able to get the Red Sox game... though the picture won't be very good, you'll still be able to watch.

9casey: Not sure it's entirely legal... One of the problems with it is you can't control which game you can listen to the audio of. Last night there were 4 games on the mosaic (including the NYY/DET game) but I could only hear the audio from the PIT/HOU game. So if there are issues about that sort of thing (it's sort of a peer-to-peer live-feed type deal) then Gameday it is.

I don't think so. I don't have my copy at work. Maybe Jere can see if a website is listed.

There are a lot of articles in it about Sox fans around the world and a section on Sox bars in the US.

The blog article is pretty short. My impression is that the author turned in something much longer and it got chopped up -- a very common practice.

I went back and looked at his response to the stuff I sent him. Just as I thought:

"I ended up with a lot more material from people than I can use in this article. I'm probably going to try to put together another story, for a different publication, so I can use more of it."

What he asked for was:

"In a general sense, I'm interested in your views of the current state, and future of, Sox blogs and message boards.On a more specific topic, I'm curious what you think of athletes like Schilling starting their own blogs. Blogs like yours are threats to traditional media -- are blogs like Schilling's threats to not only traditional media, but do they also potentially have a negative impact on fan bloggers? Will blogs like yours be marginalized if a number of players flood the market with their own?"

Unfortunately, what was published didn't really address these topics at all.

Don't let this be a definitive answer, but the North End's feast is this weekend and I'm not going, but I'm thinking of going all the way down to NYC for when Little Italy does the feast of San Genarro.

Reading over my email to him, I did not write a novella, as I remembered. Some general stuff on blogs (which reads quite well!) and Schilling/media comments.

A little bit:

"To be able to read the thoughts of one of your team's best pitchers as he reflects on his start only a few hours after he walked off the mound -- to have him go into pitch-by-pitch detail, far more detail than could ever be reported on ESPN or NESN or any newspaper -- is astounding.

"It is absolutely a threat to traditional media. That's one of the main reasons why sportswriters constantly make fun of the idea: "Schilling got shelled because he was up late chatting with his "little internet friends"." Stuff like that. (Yet these same writers have their stories up on the web and they offer blog-like posts during the games. So why are they making fun of it? And why do they make fun of computers, when just about every fan owns one?) ...

"There is the possibility that fan x will use his short amount of internet time to read 38 Pitches instead of Joy of Sox, but there are things that fan blogs will do -- stats, analysis, historical posts, venting after a loss -- than will not appear in a blog like Schilling's."

I don't need some stupid Red Sox Nation card to validate my fanship of the Red Sox. Take a look at these pictures, which I took this afternoon at a specialty foods store I was in for about 5 minutes. These are the types of products that I notice. (There was probably more, but I was only there for a short amount of time, and only want to waste a finite amount of my life taking pictures like this)

After I said the "threatsox" thing I wanted to acknowledge cakey's effort. I wasn't trying to be mean. Like if someone made a steak or something for everyone. I couldn't pretend to like it because I'm a vegetarian, but I'll still acknowledge the thought of it.

Another reason to root for the Yanks not to make the playoffs. They won like crazy after June 1, but still fell short. Therefore ... THE GAMES YOU WIN IN APRIL ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE ONES IN SEPTEMBER! Baseball wisdom is timeless.

Fox shows a replay of a Wakefield pitch -- and of course has to have the sponsor's paint roller go across the screen -- and they just about miss Wake's strike 3 pitch to Fields to end the inning. At which point, it's off for more commercials.

I'm in Florida and just missed that whole half-inning due to some crazy t-storm warning that pre-empted my fox coverage...it's amazing reading this thread how many different ways there are to get screwed out of watching the red sox...

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